-- On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:03:09 Ian sympatico wrote: >I read somewhere that his creative process involved imbibing large >quantities of either alcohol (or other substances) and then writing whatever >came to mind. After I read that I did not try to hard to reconcille the >contradictions in each book and just went with the flow of the story. > >Ian > I'm not sure where you read that, but while he was writing the Merlin series he did a lecture in NYC. I had the luck to be able to go, and I remember people asking him where things were going to go with that series, and he replied that he simply didn't know yet. I'm pretty sure it wasn't substances that gave him the ability to write. He wrote as he went along. He wasn't someone who planned very far into his stories, he just *wrote* and watched where they went. This is sort of what he implied (which of course is subject to interpretation) given the questions asked and how he answered them then. I think he didn't sweat details, just went for the story. - Barb Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com